During long forom shows there is still no weather information on the bottom of screen during commercials beaks for those who do not have the IS2. It should be there because they do it during live shows on the national feed and I don't get why they can't set the computer to turn it on and off during long form?
Are those who have an IS2 getting any info at the bottom during commercials?
The LDL during longform is transparent. If there were a national LDL on the screen, the local LDL would need to have a solid background to cover it up, thus blocking out most, if not all, of the bottom portion of the screen during longform. The only way to show longform full-screen without covering up the bottom is to keep a transparent local LDL, which, unfortunately, means no national LDL underneath.
I'm not talking about the LDL being on during longform shows. I get why it's off.
I'm talking about the commercial breaks during long form.
Why can't we get LDL the they do on the national feed during commercial breaks on the live shows during longform?
One other observation. They still need to make the lighting on the OCMs at the green screen brighter.
There's an article from the AP who talked to David Clark.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/weather-channel-tightening-focusI found two things interesting,
"Now, The Weather Channel will be able to localize such specialized coverage: if severe weather is threatening the Midwest, for example, the channel in those areas will follow it full-time while other parts of the country will stay in regular programming. Clark said this might happen some 100 to 150 days of the year."
While personally I'd rather watch the severe weather coverage it's good they are going to break into long form for those areas.
This comment also sounds promising,
"The Weather Channel is not abandoning its long-form programming, but is trying to make these shows more focused on science and the weather so they don't seem like they could be on any other channel, Clark said. He cited "Iron Men," a series about construction workers on high-rise buildings, as one that didn't work because it didn't fit the brand. Better fitting the new direction is "Freaks of Nature," a show about people with unusual abilities to withstand the elements."
